Hi
I did not mean to suggest that Apple should change the way VO works
with the OS, and your harsh response was uncalled for. I realize that
the OS works the same way for the sighted as it does for us. My point
was that, in my opinion, it would make more sense for selection to
simply be removed from an item and keep the focus in place in the
finder, rther than move it to the top of tof the folder. Most sighted
people wouldn't even notice this behavior, since they use the mouse
in finder more than the keyboard in most cases.
What I said was merely a suggestion on what would make more sense for
the OS to do in finder when deleting the item via the keyboard.
That's all it was--an opinion and suggestion.
On Sep 20, 2006, at 8:56 PM, John Weir wrote:
I keep hearing new people using VO suggest that apple change the
way the Apple OS works. What you dont seem to understand, VO works
exactly the way the Mac OS works for the sighted. It is intended
to be this way and VO is not an add on that changes the way the
background OS works like JAWS in the PC. Apple is not going to pay
any attention to suggestions that they redesign their OS 10
operating system for every signted and blind person because
several people used to using PC want VO to act like a Jaws PC. VO
mimics the apple OS and does this so that both the sighted and
blind can work together with a common operating system and common
GUI. To make VO differrent from the OS10 operating system would
pull VO out from inside and part of the operating system and set up
a separate overlay program like Jaws is in the windows system and
this is totally outside the intent of Apple. Forget the PC, you
are now using the Apple Mac and its far better operating system and
GUI. Vickie Weir
Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
It does this to me, as well. From what I can see, it's just the
way OS X handles things. It does make some sense, though, since
selection in list and column modes works a bit differently than
it does on other GUI platforms such as Windows or Gnome. When you
open a folder, you're automatically selected on the first item in
that folder. I'm guessing that from the point of view of the OS,
when you delete an item, there's no item selected (which makes
sense) and so it puts you back at the top of the previous folder.
To me, it would seem more logical just to have no item selected.
Perhaps we should suggest it to Apple. I'm not exactly sure how
icon view reacts either, as I prefer column mode. But I believe
selection works a bit differently, so I'll try it.
On Sep 20, 2006, at 3:06 PM, yvonne thomson wrote:
Hi, all.
I don't know if this has been discussed before, and I certainly
can't find it in the archives, but I've got a question about the
finder.
Here's the story. I'm sorting out my incoming directory. It's
got downloaded files, random text snippets, that kind of thing.
I need to delete some, move others, you know the drill. The
problem is, it seems that in list mode or column mode, whenever
I hit cmd-delete to send things to the trash, I get zapped to
the top of the folder I'm in, rather than staying where I was
when I deleted the file. I have the usual, all cursors tracking
each other setup. So, can anyone explain to me *why* this
happens? I'm presuming it's os x thing rather than a VO thing,
but I haven't been using it long enough to be sure. As for Icon
mode, I don't use it much, and testing it now, I have absolutely
no idea *what* it's doing in that case.
